Requisition ID R8972
Chief Advancement Officer
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SIL is seeking an entrepreneurial leader responsible for leading a startup fundraising team with clear revenue and relationship targets. This leader will see the challenge of introducing donors to a relatively unknown category of nonprofit work (language solutions) as an exciting opportunity. The candidate most likely to thrive will have a strategic bent and a love for listening to people and responding to their needs with intentional solutions. This leader should have a strong background in areas such as sales, marketing or fundraising (5 years or more). We seek someone who will bring an eagerness to approach the work through a spiritual lens where outcomes integrate revenue targets, donor transformation and ministry impact. It will be important for the candidate to have a global perspective, notable cross-cultural experience and being multilingual would be a benefit. Finally, the candidate we seek will love people and be known as a servant leader.
Job Description
Brings a heart for people, an outcomes-oriented mind and an entrepreneurial spirit to the task of building the Advancement effort within SIL and providing leadership to the start-up capability. Fosters a culture of philanthropy within the organization. Assures that the organization’s corporate culture, systems and procedures support SIL’s fundraising philosophy and make it possible for staff and volunteers to institutionalize philanthropy and fund development within the organization.
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About SIL
Dallas, TX - Founded in 1934
SIL is a global, faith-based nonprofit that works with local communities around the world to develop language solutions that expand possibilities for a better life.
Our faith inspires and informs our commitment to expand possibilities for people to thrive. We believe all people are created by God and given language as a means for flourishing. Through language, we understand who we are, experience relationships and explore life’s most important questions.